Word: sickly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thanks for "your messages, your flowers, and most of all, your prayers-not only for me but for those others who fell beside me." That public outpouring of "friendship and, yes, love" was, he said, the answer to those who claimed that the shooting showed the U.S. was "a sick society...
...growth is too fast to last. All forecasters expect a slowdown in the current quarter, but only the Administration is predicting an actual decline. True also, the inflation and unemployment rates still seem intolerably high by standards of the past. So Reagan had justification in portraying the economy as sick. If only it wouldn't look so damned healthy just as Congress prepares to vote on his budget...
...part of the silent majority that was heard Nov. 4 [when President Reagan was elected]," says Siljander. "My support comes from morally concerned citizens who are sick of the situation in this country." Siljander pledges to battle the Equal Rights Amendment, pornography, abortion, school busing and "big spending." He will champion the neutron bomb, the MX missile and prayer in public schools...
...consecutive "skunk winters," when temperatures were so mild that sick animals were not killed off quickly by the cold, are being blamed for the proliferation of rabid animals. But at least part of the problem is that packs of dogs now prowl the roads of an area near Cairo, Ill., known as Little Egypt. Many animals have been abandoned by their owners, often University of Southern Illinois students from Carbondale who simply turn their pets loose when the school year ends. Other pack members are house dogs allowed to go unleashed. In Royalton, Amy Imhoff, 6, was savagely bitten...
Ulysses Grant in his throwaway lines-in his throwaway life-kept trying to get people to see the colossal sick joke. All you do is take the nicest guy on the block, and knowing he is not good for much else, let him act on the bald fact that war means killing the guy on the other side . . . Then, all this man has to do is keep the fact in mind all the way to Appomattox...